Hindutva Watch

“Get up and crawl back into the train quickly. If they notice that you’re alive, you’ll be stoned to death.” Sixty-four-year-old Satpal Singh, a pharmacology...

All of 19 years old, Raheem’s voice was steady as he spoke about the uprooting, betrayal and loss his family endured during the communal...

By Meera Nanda Claiming an organic unity between the Vedic world view and modern science has been the agenda of Hindu nationalists from the very...

NDTV released a video on July 30, 2016 which posed the question, “Gau-Rakshaks—Protectors or Extortionists?” https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/truth-vs-hype/truth-vs-hype-gau-rakshaks-protectors-or-extortionists-425653 The video shows how “gau rakshaks”, always associated with one...

By Anosh Malekar NARENDRA DABHOLKAR was in a chatty mood on the evening of 18 August 2013. The 67-year-old rationalist had delivered a lecture against...

By Ajaz Ashraf The atrocities committed on four Dalits in Una, Gujarat, for skinning a dead cow has several layers of overlapping meanings. But perhaps...

By Romila Thapar For Indians of my age who grew up on the cusp of Independence, nationalism was in the air we breathed. Nat­ionalism was...

By Faisal Kutty Did you know that Vatican City, the Kaaba, Westminster Abbey and the Taj Mahal were once temples to the Hindu god Shiva? These are...

By Anand Patwardhan Their founding fathers came from the most conservative Brahmin castes, with enormous faith in the culture that empowered them. They opposed the mainstream secular...

By Ajaz Ashraf The irrepressible social scientist, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (the title he assumed recently), speaks on the ideological hypocrisy of Non-Resident Indians and some of...

By Vijay Prashad Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the famous professor from Columbia University, calls me from rural West Bengal. She is in Birbhum, where Professor Spivak...